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Emrys

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9. I don't know why, but as a kid growing up in Wales, my parents had a book collection of her columns.

Reply to TXPaganBanker (Original post)

Tue Jul 4, 2023, 04:39 PM

Jul 2023

I loved good writing even at an early age (I was into Woodhouse around age 10), and devoured it.

Some of the stuff she talked about was alien (e.g. "plats" of real estate), but enough was universal, and often hilarious, that it drew me in, and taught me a little about America.

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I don't know why, but as a kid growing up in Wales, my parents had a book collection of her columns. Emrys Jul 2023 #9